This session explores the nexus of two fundamentally different premises surrounding drug use and drug users. First, the ‘legitimate’ use of prescription drugs to manage the ever-increasing discovery of mood and personality disorders. Second, the [...]
Greater recognition and awareness of the severity and pervasiveness of domestic violence has prompted calls for change in how this issue is addressed in our society. In recent decades, legislation and policy changes have been [...]
Recently, federal government policies regarding international migration changed in three fundamental areas: a) in provincial allocations of settlement funding with shifts away from Ontario towards Prairie provinces and British Columbia; b) in the immigration policy [...]
While no countries treat the selling of sexual services exactly like other businesses, studies of the sale and purchase of sexual services among consenting adults show an amazing variation in legal strategies governing the activity, [...]
The 30-odd years of socioeconomic transition in China brought about many challenges to individuals, communities, social groups, and the nation as a whole. Various reforms led by the central government had different results – some [...]